deal with middle age and the mundane affairs of peace-time. The fact that he was for a time in the front rank of politicians on Prince Edward Island says more about the quality of the local élite than it

with St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the Îles de la Madeleine, and Cape Breton Island, which were important because of the fisheries

Chadbourne, who also worked in Boston, came to Prince Edward Island in 1851 and set up a store in Charlottetown. Robert joined him, but Samuel’s accidental death a year later led to the closing of the business

artistic talents probably motivated his appointment on 18 Jan. 1818 as second in command to Lieutenant William Edward Parry

tenant farmer from Tryon, was first elected to the Prince Edward Island House of Assembly in 1859, and he served continuously until his defeat at the polls in 1876. During three of these years, 1874–76, he

, Duke of Kent, secured him an appointment in 1802 as assistant commissary and storekeeper in Prince Edward Island; his regiment disbanded the same year. He was also named to the Council that year by

generalship of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, the duties of which he assumed in 1803. Somehow he was induced to give the incumbent, John Brittain, supposedly about to die, £200 a year for

parents in the late 1830s. They landed in Pugwash, N.S., but in 1839 moved to Prince Edward Island. Educated at Central Academy in Charlottetown, George began his business career there as a clerk in Henry

minister Huestis had charge of 18 circuits, most in Nova Scotia, although he also spent six years in Prince Edward Island and four in New Brunswick. He claimed that he had travelled through and preached in

those of chief superintendent of schools for Prince Edward Island and associate editor of the Philadelphia Sunday School Times

Catholic World (New York) and the Prince Edward Island Magazine (Charlottetown), she drew on her experiences amongst the natives, whom she presented in a sympathetic light. As the contributor

cruised with some of them to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the St Lawrence, and Quebec, while the rest patrolled the fishing grounds. Because large warships ran the risk of being wrecked if

to Prince Edward Island, where they intended to make their home. He travelled to the eastern United States in 1858, perhaps as a result of enquiries he had made about vacancies at the New York

governorship of Newfoundland. However, the Colonial Office withdrew the offer in favour of Sir John Harvey*, and sent Huntley to Prince Edward Island

tradition, Hutchinson appreciated the relationship between politics and office in Prince Edward Island. In 1847 he joined a number of influential merchants, magistrates, and members of the legislature from

Prince Edward Island, Charles Douglass Smith*. By 25 Oct. 1817 Lieutenant Huyghue was a half-pay officer living in Saint John, N.B

*, a Prince Edward Island judge, went so far as to chide Hébert when he failed to attend a meeting of the Société Nationale l’Assomption; a national assembly planned for that summer had been on the

Newfoundland, St John’s (Prince Edward) Island, the old province of Quebec, and Bermuda. In 1793 this vast sphere of jurisdiction was narrowed with the appointment of Jacob

recommendation was necessary. Inglis assumed the supervision of a diocese which included Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island

Edward) Island he was detained at Halifax, in the prince’s service. The prince initiated him into freemasonry, and on 2 Feb. 1797 Salaberry was installed as master of Royal Rose Lodge No.2. From